Band: Woodbox Gang (www.woodboxgang.com)
Album: Wormwood

A great band from southern Illinois playing Trashcan Americana

Verse 1   
              G (320003@1)               Am (x02210@1)            D (xx0232@1)              GGot (320003@1)a pretty smile, I can smile too.   Smile so big my head's in two.
               Am (x02210@1)              D (xx0232@1)             G (320003@1)              AmYou (x02210@1)wanna be friends, you can be mine. Keep you happy in the sunshine.
         D (xx0232@1)                     G (320003@1)           Am (x02210@1)                    DTake (xx0232@1)my hand, it's warm you can tell. Feel my heart, it's hotter than hell
           G (320003@1)                      Am (x02210@1)             D (xx0232@1)                     G (320003@1) 
I've been there and I can take you too, I can make all your bad dreams come true.


(Slide Licks in G)

D Em C (5 times) end on D

VERSE 2
I like small towns and the people there. Easier money than welfare.
What does it take to get a handout? A sucker to trust you without a doubt.
But they need me and I need them, we're all red-blooded working men.
Good or bad, where do I stand? Between the devil and a dollar is a confidence man.

CHORUS
                   D (xx0232@1)                    Em (022000@1)           C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1)
It's a confidence game, I'm a confidence man. Sure as I win, sure as I stand.
                Em (022000@1)           C (x32010@1)                   D (xx0232@1)                  EmTell (022000@1)you what I am, honest I ain't. Stab you in the back, smiling like a saint.
            C (x32010@1)                 D (xx0232@1)                       Em (022000@1)             CConfidence (x32010@1)man in a confidence game, I'll leave you with nothing but your shame.
           D (xx0232@1)                       Em (022000@1)              C (x32010@1)              DYour (xx0232@1)mama warned about a confidence game, she's been taken in just the same - by a 
            D (xx0232@1)    Em (022000@1)   C (x32010@1)  Dconfidence (xx0232@1)man.

VERSE 3

When the market dies like it always does everybody's pockets are lighter than they was.
Evrybody's mad everybody's pissed They can't believe that they were taken by a scam like this
Still they can't even understand, how they got swindled by an ordinary man
They pay the price, that's why I came, to make 'em all losers in a confidence game.

CHORUS

SLIDE LICKS IN G

D  Em  C (5 Times) end on D

The guitar solo is done on a dobro/resonator guitar, tuned to open G.